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An Education of Feeling
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Being is a project, that if you don’t work on it you depend more and more on established answers about things: you build habits, preferences and opinions. Fiction is an axe that cuts with all that, opens you up and teaches you to give importance to things you otherwise might not have been interested in; it is an education of feelings.
~ Susan Sontag
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My soul spoke to me in a whisper, urgently and alarmingly: “Words, words, do not make too many words. Be silent and listen: have you recognized your madness and do you admit it? Have you noticed that all your foundations are completely mired in madness? Do you not want to recognize your madness and welcome it in a friendly manner? You wanted to accept everything. So accept madness too.
Let the light of your madness shine, and it will suddenly dawn on you. Madness is not to be despised and not to be feared, but instead you should give it life.”
~ Carl Jung
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If a person gave away your body to some passerby, you’d be furious. Yet you hand over your mind to anyone who comes along, so they may abuse you, leaving it disturbed and troubled — have you no shame?
~ Epictetus
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